Earlier in the week I presented at an AIGA meeting at the Adobe HQ. It was a great group and a lot of fun! I have been asked for the slides and other resouces I shared during the meeting, so I thought I’d post the link here. Everything you ever wanted to know about going from print, to web, to mobile, to video. Enjoy!
Add comment August 2nd, 2008
Balsamiq, an application mockup creation tool built on Adobe AIR, has generated more than $10,000 in revenue less than 6 weeks after the $79 tool launched. The one-man company was profitable within 3 weeks after launch and the application itself is quite remarkable.
Add comment August 2nd, 2008
Join me at MAX 2008, the annual Adobe event, to connect with thousands of Adobe users, experts, and staff for four days of education and inspiration. Learn cutting-edge skills, explore emerging technologies, build valuable relationships, and ignite bold new ideas. This year’s program features a diverse schedule of sessions and labs, unique networking and social events, and presentations by industry luminaries.
Did I mention that I will be speaking there? Join me for everything you ever wanted to know about Flash!
November 16 – 19 in San Francisco, CA. Learn more at www.max.adobe.com
Add comment July 26th, 2008
So the guru Colin Moock published an interesting article about nine problems he sees with ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 9. Most of the charges he makes are specific to the Flash CS3 authoring environment, and the general theme is that ActionScript 3.0 and its implementation in Flash CS3 makes the development process more difficult than it should be for users without significant programming backgrounds.
I’d like to encourage you to read his article and let me know what you think!
http://www.insideria.com/2008/07/the-charges-against-actionscri.html
Add comment July 17th, 2008
This might be news to everyone else but Google Trends rocks! Compare any two (or more) things to see how they’re faring with the public (search numbers). Compare Flash to Silverlight and you’ll see how all is well in the land of Adobe.
Add comment July 17th, 2008
I’ve been really meaning to do a post on each one of these websites I’ve created over the past couple years but paying work keeps getting in the way. So here they are. A snapshot
Yes, I made all the Flash on this site. Great use of Flash video:
http://www.tgel.com
Other sites:
http://www.womf.org
http://www.pemko.com
http://www.samsonlive.com
http://www.opon.com
http://www.traceylynngolf.com
http://www.maxlinear.com
http://www.kineticorp.com
http://www.altiragroup.com
http://www.fervormusic.com
Add comment July 9th, 2008
“Most people use about 35% of the capacity of any one technology,” says Michelle Weil, a psychologist and product-design consultant, “and then they stop.”
I feel like everyone to a degree feels the pressure to learn new technology. I admire the people that don’t actually. But if you work in the technical industry, as a designer, manager, programmer, or casual blog poster, you often feel the weight of not knowing things you think you should know. This gets to be a major issue if you work in the technical field. It forces you to learn, grow, get frustrated, and ultimately (at best) charge more per hour, and (at worst) keep your job. But it’s our job to rise to the occasion and spend the late nights to learn the new widget that everyone’s asking for.
I think statistics say that your skills, as you know them today, will be obsolete in two years. Boy does that suck. But there’s plenty of opportunity to be the best in your field in a niche technology that just blossomed. And there’s lots of money to be made in either training or making that niche technology. That’s what inspires me. Being able to shape something that wasn’t there yesterday, and training others to do the same. Getting inspired by www.thefwa.com , learning from www.lynda.com and using the programs from www.adobe.com . It’s all there at our fingertips (literally) waiting to be created. Exciting, yes?
Add comment July 8th, 2008
After trying my best to decypher the ActionScript 3. 0 Help in Flash CS3, I’ve decided to put together a list of my favorite sites to learn ActionScript 3.0. I like them because they provide sample files to use. Enjoy!
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3
http://www.monkeyflash.com/flash/drag-and-drop-in-as3
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3_migration_08.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/migration.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/
AS 3.0 Classes/Packages:
http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000242.html
http://handmadesign.info/?p=39
Add comment June 20th, 2008
So Fireworks is often underappreciated and outshined by Photoshop’s penetration and audience. But Fireworks has power beyond Photoshops. More layer modes, better at optimizing, way better at web graphics and page creation. The CS4 version has something that the Photoshop team should steal from (below). But judge for yourself by downloading the Beta here.
Now when you update a style, all the elements the style has been applied to are instantly updated. Individual instances can break away from the style with a click of the Properties panel icon.
Add comment May 29th, 2008
That’s right. The new version of the acclaimed Soundbooth. And I have one word for you: multitrack. Download it now, but it might only work for one day in June. Read the notes, and download it here.
1 comment May 29th, 2008
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